The College News
VOL. XX, No. 12
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934
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POLLICGE NEWS, 1933
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Miss Sands Renders
Novel Monologues
Evolution of American Acting
Traced by Impersonations
of Noted Stars
ROLES ARE AUTHENTIC
Miss Dorothy Sands' presentation
of a series of monologues entitled Our
Stage and Stars, in Goodhart Hall
last Wednesday night, was a highly
expert and entertaining study in the
development in styles of American
acting since 1787. Miss Sands has
a knowledge of the technique and sub-
tleties of acting that is rarely found
in modern actresses. To say that in
her period roles, her every movement
and gesture were in period is mere-
ly to scratch the surface of her fin-
ished performance.
She has spent years studying the
way people walked, talked, moved,
gesticulated, and managed their
clothes in different periods; what they
read, thought, and talked about, and
how they lived, 'with the result that
she is never a modern actress in per-
iod costume, but always an actress of
the 1780's or 1860's or early 1900's,
moving about and talking on the
stage.
Before every impersonation, Miss
Sands appeared in her own character
to describe the play from which the
next scene was taken, and to set the
tone of the period by describing the
audience which attended the play. Her
first scene was laid on April 16, 1787,
at the John Street Theatre. "Mr.
anil Mrs. Van Rensselaer have come
to take the seats which their colored
servants have been holding for them
since early in the day; it is near six,
time for the play to begin. The men
are wearing bright-colored satin
coats, the women powdered wigs and
stiff hoop-skirted dresses. Peanut-
vendors are crying their wares in
the gallery; harpsichords and fiddles
are being played in the pit. Smoke
from the candles in the ceiling chan-
deliers and from the candle foot-
lights fills the house. The play is the
first American comedy, 'A Moral in
5 Parts: The Contrast,' by Royal Ti-
tus. The contrast is between the fri-
volity and affectation of the British,
and the honest sturdiness of the
Americans."
Miss Sands played the part of
Charlotte, "the first American flap-
per, filled with English affectations,"
talking to her friend, Letitia, a debu-
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CALENDAR
� Thurs.^Jan. 18. The Hamp-
ton" Qua'rtet will give a con-
cert. Goodhart, 8.00 P. M.
Mqn., Jan. 22. Mid-year
exams begin.
Fri., Feb. 2. Mid-year exams
end, and mid-year vacation
begins.
Tues., Feb. 6. Beginning of
the second semester.
Fredrica De Laguna
Lectures on Eskimos
Significant Discoveries Made
Near Prince William Sound,
Graves Found
OLD BELIEFS
Alumna Is Appointed Head
of N. J. College for Women
Miss Margaret Trumbell Corwin,
Bryn Mawr, '12, present executive
secretary of the Yale University
Graduate School, was appointed Dean
of the New Jersey College for Wom-
en last week, to succeed the late Mrs.
Mabel Smith Douglass. Since N.J.C.
is a part of Rutgers University, as
Barnard is of Columbia, Miss Corwin
will be virtual head of the women's
section, which was founded in 1918,
and has since developed into one of
the largest women's colleges in the
country.
After graduating from Bryn Mawr,
Miss Corwin worked for four years
with the Yale University Press. Dur-
ing the war, she served as executive
secretary of the Connecticut Worn-
Wellesley College Admits
Male Co-Ed from Turkey
. After fifty-eight years as an ex-
clusively female institution, Wellesley
College has let down its bars to men
and enrolled one lone male among its
1,500 students.
The subject of this experiment in-
co-education is Apostolos Athannais-
siou, of Constantinople, Turkey. He
came to America in order to study
color and drawing with Dr. Alexan-
der Campbell, associate professor of
art at Wellesley. He will become the
latter's assistant on an archeological
expedition which is leaving for An-
tioch next month. Athannassiou Is
twenty-five years old. He speaks sev-
en languages fluently and graduated
in 1932 from the Robert American
College in Constantinople
The Boston Herald quotes him as
saying: "I find Wellesley College the
ideal place to study. My work keeps
me so busy that it makes no dif-
ference whether the other students
are men or women.
"Wellesley girls are, well�pretty
cute is the expression, I think, but
I'm much too busy to bother them at
all. ... I have only one criticism
to make of them, and this applies to
all the American young women I
have met, as well as the Wellesley
College students � they smoke too
much. It ruins their health, and the
odor of cigarette smoke about them
is unpleasant. They seem to be very
democratic and they get along well
with one another. That is, they are
not at all what you call catty, but
they are friendly and helpful. Any
young man would fare well as a stu-
dent at Wellesley College if he h,ad
work to do that took up most of his
time, and did not let the presence
of so many women bother him."
According to the newspaper ac-
count, "Nick's enrollment as a stu-
dent at Wellesley came about as the
result of a vacation trip to the east,
during which he met W. Alexander
Campbell, associate professor of art
at Wellesley College, at Antioch. As
a boy, Nick mingled with the cosmo-
politan crowds of the Eastern cities
of Constantinople and Scutari, swim-
ming the Bosphorus for pleasure, and
unconsciously acquiring a knowledge
of languages and dialects from the
races around him. At an age when
most American college graduates are
forgetting a shaky smattering of Ger-
man, Nick was able to speak Greek,
Turkish, English, Armenian, German
and French fluently. In the United
States he has acquired two more
tongues�Arabic and American.
"Nick likes America and Ameri-
cans and calls the United States the
'Encyclopedia of the world,' because
its citizens represent such a conglom-
eration of nationalities. He says, 'I
like Americans because they mind
their own business.'"
tional Defense, and in 1918 was sent
to France by the Y. M. C. A. On
her return, she assumed her present
duties at the Yale University Gradu-
ate School.
Miss Corwin has been very active
in the American Association of Uni-
versity Women. She was director of
the North Atlantic division from
1923 to 1927, and in 1930 was the
American delegate to the council
meeting of the International Federa-
tion of University Women at Prague,
and in 1932 attended the University
Women's Federation Convention in
Edinburgh.
Addendum
Since the News ran its article con-
cerning Faculty activities during the
en's Committee of the Council of N-vfnolidays, it has been discovered that
SURVIVE
"The culture of the Eskimos of
Prince William Sound is. particularly
interesting," said Frederica De La-
guna, in her talk at the Deanery on
Sunday afternoon, "because they
have kept in cold storage the ancient
customs." Here in Southwestern
Alaska, the Chugach Eskimos have
maintained the underlying, primitive
hunting culture of all Northern Eu-
rasia and Northern America. There
are Indian tribes around them, in the
interior and to the south, and 'there
have been influences from as far
away as the state of Washington and
British Columbia, from Japan and
from Kamchatka, but their culture
is even more typically Eskimo than
that of their kinsmen in the Aleu-
tian Islands.
Except for a slight mention in
Dahl's Survey, these people had nev-
er before been studied, and thus
from an anthropological standpoint
Dr. Burket-Smith and his expedition,
of which Miss De Laguna was a
member, were working in new terri-
tory. The Eskimos' religion is par-
ticularly important. Their material
culture has vanished upon contact
with white men, which dates from the
first Russian fort in 1774, and they
are nominally orthodox Greek Cath-
olics, but the old religion persists,
associated with Christianity. In this
their development has been the oppo-
site of that of the Greenland Eski-
mos, who keep the old mode of life,
but have completely lost the old re-
ligion.
Miss De Laguna showed slides of
the beautiful country, the Columbia
glacier, the town of Cordova, chief
mining and canning center, and
others of Chenega, a tiny village on
a very old site. There are eight
tribes ih'the region of the Sound and
the natives make amusing differen-
tiations between them. The Sheep
Bay people, for instance, have stiff
whiskers from eating tallow. The
Gravena Bay people eat a great deal
of cod fish, and it is said that the
windows of their smoke-houses flap on
a still day, simply from the people
chewing fish inside. At Chenega the
people are black, they explain, be-
cause they eat so many sea animals.
Miss De Laguna showed a number of
-lides of Chenega, showing the houses
of the people, their holy spring, the
grave yard and their skin boats,
which all show the influence of the
Russians. The spring is inclosed,
blessed every two or three years and
carefully kept clean. The grave yard
shaws crosses of orthodox Greek type
with glass covered icons. The boats
are now three-seated, because Rus-
sian officials used them with two pad-
dlers. At Chenega, lives "Ma" Tiede-
mann, the Eskimo wife of a German
fisherman. She became a great friend
and interpreter for the party and her
grandfather, Makari Chimowitski,
told them many significant stories
about their old beliefs.
This xeligion, still very much alive
and a -part of their existence, is pri-
marily practical and is based on in-
dependent communion with the spir-
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Deanery Notice
Families of undergraduates
ifay now avail themselves of
the Deanery, but such arrange-
ments must be made by the un-
dergraduate personally through
the Chairman of the Entertain-
ing Committee, Mrs. Chadwick-
Collins.
An additional charge of 15c
will be made on the charge of
rooms to non-alumnae.
Dean Manning Discusses
Plan for Comprehensives
Mrs. Manning spoke in Chapel.
Tuesday morning, on the subject of
the new plan for comprehensive ex-
aminations which has been proposed
by the Curriculum Committee, and is
now under consideration by the fac-
ulty. The object of calling the stu-
dents together, was to explain more
fully the aims of this new plan, and
to urge the students to look over the
copies of the plan in each hall, and
to make any suggestions of changes
or additions to the present plan which
they think advisable to the Curricu-
lum member in each hall. The pres-
ent plan is not in its final draft, and
the Committee is eager to hear the
opinion of the student body.
The plan calls for a "comprehen-
sive exam" covering the major course
in all its branches, to be given to each
candidate for the A.B. degree with
the intention of bringing together all
the work done in the one subject in
all the different years. The adjec-
tive "final" should perhaps be substi-
tuted for "comprehensive," for the
exam will not attempt to be merely
a test of the student's memory", but
will test her powers of organization
aiid of applying what she has learned
to answer the question. An exam of
this nature will be important in help-
ing a student to measure her own
achievement.
The whole progress of education at
the present time is in the direction
of finding an objective .system of
exams to test the power of present-
ing material, not to demand a mere
recitation of facts. Essay questions
will be in the majority, and there
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Nazis Want Equality
in National Status
Dr. Marx Says Hitler Proposal
for Disarmament Is Sincere
Peace Move
ATROCITIES ARE RARE
A distinctly startled audience
i eard Dr. Marx, publicized and in-
troduced as an opponent of the Nazi
regime, set forth his ideas on Hitler-
ism and Peace, Monday evening. Pre-
pared as they were to hear this for-
mer professor at the University of
Hamburg and Director of Public
Welfare of that city attack the poli-
cies of the new Germany, from which
he is in voluntary exile, his de-
fense produced an impression of pro-
found conviction.
"I feel that my task this evening
is not destined to be very easy," said
Dr. Marx, "as many of you identify
Hitlerism with violence. This idea is
based on, an incorrect impression." It
is the newspapers that must be blam-
ed for fostering this impression cur-
rent since jhe Nazi Revolution last
March.
Dr. Marx, as a constant reader of
American publications during the
first weeks of the Nazi revolution of
March, 1933, was impressed by the
predominance of one type of story�
the tale of atrocity. "Although I be-
long to the opposite side and although
my contacts with the suppressed
group have been more numerous than
with the group in power, I have
heard not one atrocity story in Ham-
burg." In spite of the fact that one
American news syndicate stated that
1,200 people had been killed, employ-
ment of violence has been the excep-
tion, not the rule. Acts of violence
have occurred, but such acts are in-
separable from revolution.
Usually Americans, nourished on
their morning paper's view of the sit-
uation, go to the other extreme after
a trip to Germany, where they are
treated with care and consideration,
as foreigners. Even the conscien-
tious tourist, who must get to the
bottom of things, and to this end in-
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In Hepburn, Our Alma Mater Has Hatched
"Soaring Eagle," Says Screenland Article
Dr. Cadbury attended the National
Association of Biblical Instructors
which was held in New York, and
the meeting of the Society of Biblical
Literature and Exegesis, which was
also held in New York. At the for-
mer, Dr. Cadbury spoke on "How To
Teach the Synoptic Gospels," and at
the latter he presented two papers,
"The Roman Road Through the Beth-
horons," which was illustrated, and
"The Macellum in Corinth." Dr. Cad-
bury resigned as secretary of the So-
ciety of Biblical Literature and Exe-
gesis, which office he has held since
1916.
Fencing
A Novice Tournament will be
held in the College Gymnasium
on Tuesday, January 30, at
7.30 P. M., under the auspices
of the Associated Fencers'
League of America. Every en-
trant must be a member of the
A. F. L. A., and one who has
not heretofore won an individ-
ual prize in any A. F. L. A.
competition. Members from the
Philadelphia Sword Club and
Shipley School,- as well as from
Bryn Mawr, will compete.
Through the courtesy of Son nland
Muguziite, which has given us their
permission to reprint an article en-
titled, Hepburn's College Dug", from
their February issue, we are enabled
to pass on to Bryn Mawr the movie
world's ideas of a Bryn Mawr girl's
college career and their suggestions
for a closer rapprochement between
the colleges and the movies. After
reading the following item, we could
but cry, "Oh, for the girlish enthus-
ism of the class of '28!'":
"One of Hepburn's favorite spots on
the campus on spring evenings was
the greensward enclosed by the li-
brary cloisters where she loved to dis-
port herself and roll around in-tbe
damp grass!"
And after reading the following
description of Bryn Mawr's "golden
peacock," we heartily agreed with the
author that "there is no telling what
may happen in the future!"
"Bryn Mawr may be called the
'high-brow' of the women's colleges.
Rather than going in for society, its
aim is to develop intellectual eagles
who will soar to great heights. In
Kate Hepburn Bryn Mawr has hatch-
ed a beautiful golden peacock�also
a soaring eagle, but so outside the
pattern that American women's col-
lege have as yet set up for them-
selves, that Bryn Mawr does not ex-
actly know how to take it!
There has never been exactly an
entente cordiale between the motion
pictures and the women's colleges.
But now with a college girl a tre-
mendous sensation on the screen,
there is no telling whtt may happen
in the future." n
We are sure tha Berolzheim-
er and Miss Carpenter will be inter-
ested to learn that their rooms were
privileged to provide what was de-
scribed in the captions as "two dif-
ferent views of Katherine's college
room"�two definitely different view-;,
you understand. And, according to
the article, the person to whom the
"glory" of starting the "barelegged
fad" and of first wearing disreputable
clothes at Bryn Mawr is attributable,
has at last been traced down! Fur-
thermore, the first time your daugh-
ter cries "I want to go to Bin Mar!"
you may thenceforth suspect her of
being a genius in embryo.
"From the time she was a little
freckle-faced girl who could dive like
a duck, stand on her head and do all
sorts of awe-inspiring stunts on her
sliding trapeze in the garden�there
were two things that 'Kate' Hep-
burn cared for more than anything
in the world.
One was making up plays and
'putting them on.' When she was
twelve she staged her own idea of
'Beauty and the Beast.' playing the
'big, bad wolf herself with jrusto,
in a ferocious-looking head she had
made with cardboard and flannel.
The other was some day to go to
Bryn Mawr College. This was her
mother's college, and that of her aunt,
her mother's sister, now Mrs. Edith
Houghton Hooker, of Baltimore, both
of whom had been very distinguished
students. They had been at Bryn
Mawr at the chafing-dish-Iarge-pom-
padour-and-padded-hips era of the
college girl, around the close of the
century, and were keen about college.
School and education, and suf-
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